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Originally Posted by Jellby
As for the kind of works that I might need a dictionary for, I sometimes want to know exactly what kind of carriage, what shape of sail, what sort of tropical fruit, what colour of bird, etc. a writer is talking about.
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I am very much the same. I can tell from the text that the book is talking about a carriage, but I want to know what the difference is between a landau and a phaeton.